Bless the Harts

Bless the Harts feels true right out of the gate.

You can feel Bless the Harts figuring itself out in its first episode. There are bits that go on for too long; Wayne’s internal monologues, for one, move at too relaxed a pace and result in little comedic payoff. But the episode also features promising signs of the madcap humor that the series will hopefully settle into.

“Harts” lets you have a helping of the lifestyle you loved in “King of the Hill.”

With only one episode to go on, it’s difficult to say exactly what “Bless the Harts” will look like going forward, but it’s at least working with a solid foundation.

With a similarly big heart [as King of the Hill} and a voice cast including Maya Rudolph, Kristen Wiig, Kumail Nanjiani and Ike Barinholtz, the result is familiar and refreshing at once.

This one just kind of sits there for 30 minutes, pleasant but not particularly funny as it sets up the Hart family. Lots of comedies get better after four or five episodes. It's your call. The downside to Bless the Harts not exactly lighting things up in the pilot is that the one thing it does do is make you want to watch King of the Hill.

There's not much here you haven't seen on another Fox cartoon, King of the Hill, except it's done with Southern accents. The pilot does feature a couple of interesting guest appearances—one by an anarchist cat working to destroy zoning laws, and another by Colin Powell doing the macarena. Call me if they get their own shows.

Although the animation and writing are (very) shaky, a cast of seasoned comedic talents go to great lengths to prove that it's still possible for seasoned comedic talents to be very bad at voice work.

Yawn fest... with such a promising cast I’d hoped for better. Not surprising or even remotely funny.

No wonder this snooze fest of a show was canceled, it's not even funny, the animation is literal garbage, and the voice acting is mid at best. The fact that this is the show that brought back Fox Animation Domination is pretty much showing that Fox is running low on ideas for good shows to air. This show's a 0.

It's difficult to put into words how truly bad this show is. Obviously the biggest problem is that it is not remotely entertaining; alas, that's not even the worst of it. According to the promotional material it is set in the King of the Hill universe, which makes perfect sense. Before I read that online, I was already thinking it felt like a very bad King of the Hill knockoff. Alas, this show has none of the likable characters, nor the storytelling that show offered. What you get instead is bombarded by non-stop stereotypes. There is nothing funny, endearing, or engaging about this show, even the animation is surprising subpar. The biggest problem, however, is that it is grotesquely offensive. Every aspect of the show is designed to hammer home all of the most vile, bigoted, and hateful stereotypes those on the Left hold about White people, Southerners, Christians, and men. Over and over and OVER again you are reminded the show's creators believe White people in the south are dumb, classless, have bad taste, and are generally subhuman. They also worked in a muslim actor voicing Jesus Christ as an extremely effeminate, beer swilling, trashy confidant of the main character. If you don't believe all of that was intentionally done solely as a middle finger to Christians, I would ask you if you think anyone from the show's creator to the head of the network would ever consider doing something similar with mohamed... Yeah, I think we all know anyone who even suggested something like that would never work another day in the entertainment industry. To be clear, I am not suggesting offensive things can't be funny because they very much can be. The issue with Bless the Harts is that it is offensiveness devoid of entertainment. It's not clever, not subtle, not engaging, and definitely not funny. To sum up, this is a complete cringefest that is going to evoke a lot of completely justified disgust Fox should quit now, stop airing it, apologize, then fire whoever green-lit this train wreck.